evangelists

plural of evangelist

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Noun
  • The platform’s private servers let activists organize out of the public eye, often under pseudonyms, and use text and calling features.
    Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
  • But, years before Dobbs, a group of activists calling themselves the Respect New Mexico Women campaign began petitioning lawmakers to overturn the ban.
    Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The story of two mismatched missionaries spreading the gospel won nine Tony Awards in 2011, including for best musical.
    Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Muslim traders and missionaries began traveling to Hausa lands in the twelfth century, and much of the society gradually converted to Islam.
    Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 14 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Together, O’Neill and Alicia navigate a rabbit hole of deranged folk singers, psychotic cops, boxing promoters, line dancing enthusiasts, and worst of all, podcasters, the truth blurs, bodies stack, and the nature of their search comes into question.
    Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 3 Oct. 2025
  • American baseball promoters were quick to see the potential of the Japanese market, touring the country as early as 1908.
    Jared Bahir Browsh, The Conversation, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In addition to the Jesus tower, another would be dedicated to Mary, with bluish granite ornaments meant to evoke her iconic cloak; there would also be spires for each of the four Evangelists and the twelve apostles.
    D. T. Max, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025
  • The 9th-century monastery rises from the plateau—its stone walls etched with faded medieval frescoes of apostles and Last Judgement scenes.
    Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 24 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Digital rights advocates have also pushed back against a proposal to limit a person to only one social media account per platform, ostensibly as a means to crack down on disinformation.
    Chad de Guzman, Time, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The closure shrouds the 8,000-foot-high plateau and its elk, bison and occasional backcountry skiers in a winter wilderness that some advocates hope to protect and others seek to unlock.
    Brandon Loomis, AZCentral.com, 5 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The chorus of boos at the final whistle showed what supporters made of it.
    Steve Madeley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Back in the 1920s, even the Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin called on his British supporters to affiliate with the Labour Party instead of fighting it.
    Arash Azizi, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • By visiting with the sick and shut-in, helping the bereaved, ministering to the incarcerated, always being willing to open the doors of Mount Moriah Missionary Baptist Church to more people, teaching theology to other pastors and more, Thornhill was a pastor.
    Sophia Tiedge, jsonline.com, 11 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that vacuum, religious zealots and cults manifest, nihilism thrives, and families are torn apart.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
  • For weeks, Oasis zealots have devoured online videos of the siblings strolling out onstage together, arms raised in victory and hugs brief yet genuine.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2025
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